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Andrew Fletcher
Using Homebrew for speed tests... I'm using Speediest CLI - for more details go to https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli To install speedtest CLI is is quick by running the following brew install speedtest-cliI had a few brew updates required as you'll see by the response below You have 18 outdated formulae installed. ==> Fetching dependencies for speedtest-cli: mpdecimal, openssl@3 and python@3.11 ==> Fetching mpdecimal ==> Downloading...
Andrew Fletcher
I'm in an environment where the default branch is staging and I'm attempting to...
Andrew Fletcher
How to count the number of files in a directory.  At some point you'll have...
Andrew Fletcher
I've recently upgraded the server Ubuntu 20.04 updating the PHP version from 7.4...
Andrew Fletcher
Recently I have been investigating one of my Linux server's speed using the...
Andrew Fletcher
Looking to install Solr on your server?  Not sure if it worth the effort?  Well, Apache Solr is the open-source, popular, super fast open source enterprise search platform from the Apache Lucene project.  Written in Java, Solr is highly scalable, providing fault-tolerant distributed search and indexing. Let's walk through the steps I went through to install Solr on Centos 7.   Step 1: Java Check if Java is installed on your server: java -versionNot there - then JAVA is the...
Andrew Fletcher
I had generated a backup of key directories on the server - see Create a...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently, I have a situation where I have two repositories.  The first is...
Andrew Fletcher
Creating a bash script Bash scripts are files containing code that tell your...
Andrew Fletcher
Accessing a remote server using PEM key, and I had the following...
Andrew Fletcher
How do you generate a .pem file from an existing .ppk key? Is putty on your mac? Check by running the command puttygen -VWhich will generate a response similar to  puttygen: Release 0.76 Build platform: 64-bit Unix Compiler: clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.9) Source commit: 1fd7baa7344bb....Don't have Putty, well easily fixed with homebrew. brew install putty  Generate the key We will use puttygen to generate the key. puttygen key.ppk -O private-openssh -o key.pem key.ppk the...
Andrew Fletcher
Installing Varnish to increase the speed of the page load. Install varnish using...
Andrew Fletcher
Currently I'm working through an app that has been abandoned by the developers....
Andrew Fletcher
First off, this isn't the only method to achieve the outcome of emptying a...
Andrew Fletcher
Clear DNS Cache The DNS (Domain Name Service) cache on your Mac helps browsers...